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A 55-year-old Moorhead man may face charges in an incident on a northwestern Minnesota lake where it was thought a man used a pontoon to harass a deer and stop it from getting to shore -- thus killing the animal.

` Police are searching for a woman in connection with a Wednesday robbery at Bremer Bank here. At about 1:30 p.m., the woman allegedly displayed a weapon in the lobby of the bank at 921 N. Washington St. and demanded money, Grand Forks Police Lt. Derik Zimmel said. She then left the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash, Zimmel said.

34-year-old female inmate has been flown to a Duluth-area hospital after she was found to be unresponsive and then revived at the Beltrami County Jail early Tuesday. At approximately 2:37 a.m., Beltrami County correctional staff were notified of a medical emergency regarding an inmate within the facility, according to a release from the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office. The woman was found to be unresponsive, not breathing and without a pulse.

Investigators have made an arrest in connection to the death of a Naytahwaush, Minn., man in an apparent hit and run Sunday, according to Clearwater County Sheriff's Office. Elmer William Thompson, 43, was arrested without a struggle at about 3:30 p.m.

More than 150 people gathered in this small town Monday for a tearful vigil for the seriously injured driver of a public school bus that was involved in a crash with four semis in thick fog Friday. The 34 fourth-graders in the bus escaped safely, but it took almost an hour for first responders to pull the driver, Cathryn Jostad, from the wreckage.

It was dark as Ann Lilleoien drove home Tuesday night from Devils Lake when she thought she saw a deer in the ditch. "I was going 65, but I slowed to 55," she said. "When I got closer, I could see it was a cougar." As she drove along Ramsey County Road 8 about four miles west of Lawton, the animal bounded from the ditch onto the road. "It was running right next to my pickup, and it was going faster than me," she said.

Jason Duane Lampl, 24, has been sentenced in Becker County District Court for felony second-degree burglary. According to court records, in June of 2014 he burglarized a cabin on South Dinner Lake Loop, Park Rapids. The well pump and tank were removed from inside the cabin, and he also took 10 sheets of drywall, a quantity of lumber, and some tools and household items. He was charged after DNA on a cigarette butt left at the site was traced to him via a state database.

St. CLOUD — The former mayor of Richmond in central Minnesota is accused of stealing money from the amateur baseball team that he used to manage. Scott Kron, 43, is charged in Stearns County District Court with three felonies and one gross misdemeanor.

With a notarized eviction notice on his front door, Mike Marcell Jr. walked the 20 yards to his landlord’s home on the morning of Sept. 4 to tell him he needed more than 14 days to move. Marcell told Gerald Duane Skolte, 63, who owned the property near Perham where Marcell and his fiance's trailer home sat, that he was not going to leave until he had talked to the sheriff.